chris4585
May 18th, 2008, 01:12 AM
At school I use a computer for my fourth block class, they obviously don’t care about it, or I would of been told I did something wrong. But I pretty much use that computer for whatever I want. One day I got bored, and thought about making xfce4 look like Windows Xp. I think It looks nearly 95% just like Windows Xp, with compiz fusion on it. What do you think?
from my blog - Screenshots here (http://chris4585.wordpress.com/2008/05/18/windows-xp-or-should-i-say-xfce/)
Step 1
http://www.compiz-themes.org/content/show.php/WinXP+Theme?content=68882
extract that, and you'll need the background obviously
Now to be honest I used gnome-panel, because I couldn't figure out how to get the windows panel image to work in the xfce4-panel, use the xp panel-image in gnome. First run the terminal and run gnome-panel, (assuming you have gnome-panel) right click on it and go to properties, change it to use a image, and use the xp panel image.
Step 2
In xfce4 you have a windows xp like style, you'd have to look for it since I can't tell you the exact name, but it comes with the xfce4 package
Step 3
For the start image I went to images.google and looked for "windows xp start button" and filtered it to look for small images. But I'll save you time http://dsnimg.dell.com/images/kb/105595824.gif this might be the one I used, of course you can improvise. I saved that somewhere temporarily. Then download GnomeXP (http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/GnomeXP?content=69587) icons, Install them by extracting them to ~/.icons/
Delete the /GnomeXP/48x48/places/start-here.png and rename the xp start here button we downloaded off google to start-here.png
If that doesn't work replace all of the windows like logo's to the xp start button. You might have to go through trial and error, I did.
Step 4
Now right click on the gnome-panel, go to add to, remove the menu-bar, and add main-menu.
from my blog - Screenshots here (http://chris4585.wordpress.com/2008/05/18/windows-xp-or-should-i-say-xfce/)
Step 1
http://www.compiz-themes.org/content/show.php/WinXP+Theme?content=68882
extract that, and you'll need the background obviously
Now to be honest I used gnome-panel, because I couldn't figure out how to get the windows panel image to work in the xfce4-panel, use the xp panel-image in gnome. First run the terminal and run gnome-panel, (assuming you have gnome-panel) right click on it and go to properties, change it to use a image, and use the xp panel image.
Step 2
In xfce4 you have a windows xp like style, you'd have to look for it since I can't tell you the exact name, but it comes with the xfce4 package
Step 3
For the start image I went to images.google and looked for "windows xp start button" and filtered it to look for small images. But I'll save you time http://dsnimg.dell.com/images/kb/105595824.gif this might be the one I used, of course you can improvise. I saved that somewhere temporarily. Then download GnomeXP (http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/GnomeXP?content=69587) icons, Install them by extracting them to ~/.icons/
Delete the /GnomeXP/48x48/places/start-here.png and rename the xp start here button we downloaded off google to start-here.png
If that doesn't work replace all of the windows like logo's to the xp start button. You might have to go through trial and error, I did.
Step 4
Now right click on the gnome-panel, go to add to, remove the menu-bar, and add main-menu.